Tag: refugees
‘We all slept in the car, five of us’. Young refugees talk about being homeless in Australia
There is help available for young refugees who find themselves
homeless in Australia, if only they can find it. Supakit Wisetanuphong/Shutterstock
One of the biggest...
Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion
The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency
medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru. Thirty-one people
have been...
Cruel, and no deterrent: why Australia’s policy on asylum seekers must change
Iranian Kurdish poet Behrouz Boochani, a long term detainee on
on Manus, wrote about the cruelty he witnessed in detention in his...
Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money
There are thousands in the Australian community
who say they would sponsor a refugee’s resettlement,
but only if the program was reformed....
New research shows how Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities
The Deakin study found that too few of the stories about
minority communities incorporated a viewpoint from that community. Shutterstock
Australians from culturally diverse backgrounds...
A warm review of Asylum from Readers’ Favorite
“Asylum is a solid story that deals with one woman’s journey to adulthood while underscoring the social and political injustices faced by those who...